Forty-six people were found dead after being abandoned in a tractor-trailer on a remote back road in San Antonio. Sixteen people were hospitalized, including four children.
Hours later, body bags lay spread on the ground near the trailer and bodies remained inside as authorities responded to the calamity.
South Texas has long been the busiest area for illegal border crossings. Migrants ride in vehicles through Border Patrol checkpoints to San Antonio, the closest major city, from which point they disperse across the United States. “They were suffering from heat stroke and exhaustion," Hood said."It was a refrigerated tractor-trailer, but there was no visible working AC unit on that rig.”
Before that, people paid small fees to mom-and-pop operators to get them across a largely unguarded border. As crossing became exponentially more difficult after the 2001 terror attacks in the U.S., migrants were led through more perilous terrain and paid thousands of dollars more. “With the border shut as tightly as it is today for migrants from Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, people have been pushed into more and more dangerous routes. Truck smuggling is a way up,” he wrote on Twitter.
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